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BEN
FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS:
25 YEARS OF POSITIVE, MEASURABLE IMPACT
A GUEST EDITORIAL BY REP. RICK GEIST
 Twenty-five
years ago, as a prime sponsor, along with former representative
and Mayor of Pittsburgh Tom Murphy, I stood by Gov. Dick Thornburgh
as he signed into legislation the act that created the Ben Franklin Technology Partners. At the time, we envisioned
great things from this newly created program designed to fuel
Pennsylvania's technology economy by nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit
and providing financial, business and infrastructure-building support.
We never imagined a return on investment of 23-to-1 on every state dollar
invested. MORE >>> |
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 MCKESSON
The
fifth-leading cause of death for Americans, not far behind
cancer and heart disease, is medical errors by the U.S. healthcare
system. Many of these deaths are due to medication-related
issues in hospitals. McKesson's medicine distribution technology
is helping to change that. MORE >>> |
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 ORIGINATE
VENTURES
Many entrepreneurs who engineer
a $255 million payday for their investors would take
that as a sign to relax. But Mike Gausling, co-founder
and former CEO of OraSure, started a venture capital
firm to help entrepreneurs in northeastern PA. MORE >>> |
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 SALVAGE
DIRECT
Totaled cars have quite an afterlife,
thanks to the efforts of SalvageDirect. The company auctions
total-loss vehicles through its website to licensed dealers
and dismantlers around the world who buy the wrecks to salvage valuable parts. MORE >>> |
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 IMMUNICON
In the complicated world of cancer
diagnosis, bigger is definitely not better. Recognizing the
power of small, one company has developed a technique that
can isolate testing down to a single cell in a tube of blood by
using nanotechnology. MORE >>> |
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